Abstract
The free cooling behavior of a wet granular gas is studied in one dimension. We employ a particularly simple model system in which the interaction of wet grains is characterized by a fixed energy loss assigned to each collision. Macroscopic laws of energy dissipation and cluster formation are studied on the basis of numerical simulations and mean-field analytical calculations. We find a number of remarkable scaling properties which may shed light on earlier unexplained results for related systems.
| Original language | English |
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| Article number | 018001 |
| Journal | Physical Review Letters |
| Volume | 97 |
| Issue number | 1 |
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| Publication status | Published - 7 Jul 2006 |
| Externally published | Yes |